Of guns and knife-fights: The EU and U.S. escalate penalties against Putin
Friday, European Union and U.S. officials finally agreed to freeze the assets of Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. Also Friday, Russian missiles bombarded Kyiv as troops entered the city to topple Ukraine’s government, an advance that gives the final lie to the now patently ridiculous pretense that Putin was merely supporting Russians in breakaway regions.